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by mark_l_watson
1166 days ago
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+1 a very good point! At a birthday party yesterday I was talking with a friend who is a film director/producer (smart, somewhat tech savvy) and he said much the same thing as you did, adding that the whole field of generative models scares him. He was not talking about losing work to AIs, but rather he is concerned about harm to society. I agreed with him on possible risks but I argued that the potential benefits outweigh the risks. I am biased because of my age (early 70s) because I want as many AI tools available as possible to keep playing the ‘infinite game’: I want the best self driving cars to make me safer driving; I love being able to get so much more coding done now (Emacs tricked out with Copilot, and embedded ChatGPT and Dalle consoles); I have been working on information processing systems for over 40 years, and now with OpenAI, Hugging Face, LangChain, LlamaIndex, etc., this all becomes so much easier. I want more! More! That said, I understand that people younger than myself may reasonably be more risk adverse than I am. |
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Imo this is what it’s all about, gaining immortality and unlimited power under the guise of “good for society” through solutionism and technology.
Silicon Valley is getting older so the efforts to keep going wind up.
That’s why there’s so much anxiety around alignment. The Elixir of an eternal life might be the thing that takes it away, is this any different than in the past ? Sadly yes, but this time it might take all the young people with it.